In economics, a shortage or excess demand is a situation in which the demand for a product or service exceeds its supply in a market. It is the opposite...

Food shortage or food scarcity may refer to: Famine, extreme scarcity of food Food security, or lack thereof Economic shortage, demand for a product or...

Between 2020 and 2023, there was a worldwide chip shortage affecting more than 169 industries, which led to major price increases, long queues, and reselling...

Artificial scarcity is scarcity of items despite the technology for production or the sufficient capacity for sharing. The most common causes are monopoly...

Shortages in Venezuela of food staples and basic necessities occurred throughout Venezuela's history. Scarcity became more widespread following the enactment...

"Shortage economy" (Polish: gospodarka niedoboru, Hungarian: hiánygazdaság) is a term coined by Hungarian economist János Kornai, who used this term to...

A nursing shortage occurs when the demand for nursing professionals, such as Registered Nurses (RNs), exceeds the supply locally—within a healthcare facility—nationally...

exceeds its supply in a market. Shortage may also refer to: Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic Shortage economy Shortages in Venezuela This disambiguation...

In 2022, the United States experienced a severe shortage of infant formula as a result of the 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis compounded by a large...

Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic are pandemic-related disruptions to goods production and distribution, insufficient inventories, and disruptions...

An energy crisis or energy shortage is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy. In literature, it often refers to one...

substantially different meanings. A prominent current use, for example, refers to shortages of available housing in the United States and other countries, but it...

the Catholic Church, a phenomenon considered by many to constitute a "shortage" in the number of priests. From 1980 to 2012, the ratio of Catholics per...

people may have difficulty accessing health care services. A physician shortage is a situation in which there are not enough physicians to treat all patients...

restriction in blood supply to any tissue, muscle group, or organ, causing a shortage of oxygen. Ischemia is generally caused by problems with blood vessels...

The 2020–present United States ammunition shortage is the most recent of all the ammunition shortages in the United States. It arose out of the COVID-19...

Russia, and the US state of Wyoming, but they were not expected to ease the shortage. In 2013, Qatar started up the world's largest helium unit, although the...

The 2008–2016 United States ammunition shortage was a shortage of civilian small arms ammunition in the United States that started in late 2008, and continued...

scarcity". The FAO defines water stress as the "symptoms of water scarcity or shortage". Such symptoms could be "growing conflict between users, and competition...

A chip shortage, also referred to as semiconductor shortage or chip famine, is a phenomenon in the integrated circuit (chip) industry when demand for silicon...

Concerns of both a current and future shortage of medical doctors due to the supply and demand for physicians in the United States have come from multiple...

have faced a serious housing shortage. The Bay Area's housing shortage is part of the broader California housing shortage. In October 2015, San Francisco...

housing shortage,: 3  such that by 2018, California ranked 49th among the states of the U.S. in terms of housing units per resident.: 1  This shortage has...

settings, surpassing the number of drug shortages present in 2014. Drugs and medications impacted by the shortage included asthma medications, anesthesia...

Vegetable shortage in spring...

Internet users, always-on devices, and mobile devices. The anticipated shortage has been the driving factor in creating and adopting several new technologies...

There has been a nursing shortage in Canada for decades. This became more acute in the period between 1943 and 1952 as Canada's health services were expanding...

declared another "unprecedented inventory shortage" in April 2023, offering no estimate as to when this shortage might be resolved. An August 2023 CNBC special...

The Housing Shortage (German: Die Wohnungsnot) is a 1920 German silent short comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Victor Janson and Marga...

began in late 2011 with an acute shortage of butter and inflation of its price across markets in Norway. The shortage caused soaring prices, and stores'...